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Chaldon

Chaldon is a village and civil parish in the Tandridge District of Surrey, England.

Chaldon
Chaldon · allen watkin from London, UK
The place

Chaldon is a village and civil parish in the Tandridge District of Surrey, England. The village is situated high on the North Downs, immediately west of Caterham and 15.8 miles (25.4 km) south of Charing Cross, the traditional centre of London.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Chaldon

5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Church of St Peter and St Paul

    The Church of Saints Peter and Paul at Chaldon, Surrey, is a Church of England parish church in the Diocese of Southwark. The building was begun before 1086 and is Grade I listed.

    1.1 km · church at Chaldon, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sacred Heart Church, Caterham

    Sacred Heart Church or formally the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a Roman Catholic parish church in Caterham, Surrey, England designed by Ingress Bell and built in 1881. It is situated between Essendene Road and Whyteleafe Road off the High Street.

    1.9 km · grade II listed church in Caterham-on-the-Hill, Tandridge, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Mercers Lake

    Mercers Lake is a body of water in Mercers Park, Merstham, near Redhill, Surrey. It is a former quarry that has been adapted for water sports, such as sailing, kayaking, and paddle boarding.

    3.8 km · lake in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Dollypers Hill

    Dollypers Hill is a 12-hectare nature reserve south east of Coulsdon in the London Borough of Croydon. It is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.

    3.3 km · park · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Happy Valley Park

    Happy Valley Park is a public park in Coulsdon in the London Borough of Croydon. It is owned and managed by Croydon Council.

    1.7 km · public park in London, England · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Chaldon

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 16 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 32 km · London Luton (LTN), 68 km
Stations
Upper Warlingham railway station, 3.9 km · Whyteleafe South railway station, 3.5 km · Merstham railway station, 3.2 km · Caterham railway station, 2.3 km
  • Luton, Luton → Chaldon
    69 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £9–12
  • London, Essex → Chaldon
    26 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £2.5–3.5
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Chaldon
    23 km · quickest by road, 43 min · £3–4
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Chaldon

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Chaldon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inWhile the runway is usable by aircraft up to Boeing 737/Airbus A320 size, it is prohibited for airline operators to sell tickets for flights in and out of the airport, thus there are no scheduled or holiday charter flights from the airport.

From Wikivoyage: London/South, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    106 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    318 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    411 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    582 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    618 km

If you know how people move in Chaldon – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Chaldon

Chaldon is 25 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Caterhamtown in Tandridge district, Surrey, England2.1 km
  • Whyteleafevillage in Tandridge district, Surrey, United Kingdom3.7 km
  • Hooleyvillage in Reigate and Banstead, Surrey, United Kingdom3.9 km
  • Mersthamvillage in Reigate and Banstead, Surrey, United Kingdom3.4 km
  • Netherne-on-the-Hillvillage in Surrey, England, UK2.5 km
  • Caterham-on-the-Hillcivil parish in Tandridge, Surrey, England1.8 km